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The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo

The study aim was to investigate the age, gender and technical level on motor coordination abilities of Taekwondo children. One hundred and fifteen children (83 male, 32 female), aged 7.76 ± 1.71 years, divided in three different groups, under 8 (5–7 years), under 10 (8–9 years) and under 12 (10–11...

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Autores principales: Boutios, Stefanos, Fiorilli, Giovanni, Buonsenso, Andrea, Daniilidis, Panagiotis, Centorbi, Marco, Intrieri, Mariano, di Cagno, Alessandra
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8199911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204965
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115998
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author Boutios, Stefanos
Fiorilli, Giovanni
Buonsenso, Andrea
Daniilidis, Panagiotis
Centorbi, Marco
Intrieri, Mariano
di Cagno, Alessandra
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Fiorilli, Giovanni
Buonsenso, Andrea
Daniilidis, Panagiotis
Centorbi, Marco
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description The study aim was to investigate the age, gender and technical level on motor coordination abilities of Taekwondo children. One hundred and fifteen children (83 male, 32 female), aged 7.76 ± 1.71 years, divided in three different groups, under 8 (5–7 years), under 10 (8–9 years) and under 12 (10–11 years), underwent three coordination skills tests: the ruler drop test (RDT), assessing visual reaction time, the hexagonal test (HT), assessing agility, and the target kick test (TKT), assessing kicking ability. MANOVA showed significant gender differences for TKT, in which females showed higher scores than males (p = 0.033). Significant differences were found in HT and TKT, where the under 12 group showed higher scores than younger athletes (p < 0.001). No differences amongst different age groups were found in RDT, showing that this could be a good predictor of Taekwondo performance, assessed at an early stage. High-level athletes showed better scores in all the tests than the low levels, as it was expected. Coordinative performance improves with age and is positively influenced by practicing a sports activity. The predisposition to a particular sport with a well-planned training may lead to a motor proficiency comparable to that reached by older athletes and better than same-age athletes.
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spelling pubmed-81999112021-06-14 The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo Boutios, Stefanos Fiorilli, Giovanni Buonsenso, Andrea Daniilidis, Panagiotis Centorbi, Marco Intrieri, Mariano di Cagno, Alessandra Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The study aim was to investigate the age, gender and technical level on motor coordination abilities of Taekwondo children. One hundred and fifteen children (83 male, 32 female), aged 7.76 ± 1.71 years, divided in three different groups, under 8 (5–7 years), under 10 (8–9 years) and under 12 (10–11 years), underwent three coordination skills tests: the ruler drop test (RDT), assessing visual reaction time, the hexagonal test (HT), assessing agility, and the target kick test (TKT), assessing kicking ability. MANOVA showed significant gender differences for TKT, in which females showed higher scores than males (p = 0.033). Significant differences were found in HT and TKT, where the under 12 group showed higher scores than younger athletes (p < 0.001). No differences amongst different age groups were found in RDT, showing that this could be a good predictor of Taekwondo performance, assessed at an early stage. High-level athletes showed better scores in all the tests than the low levels, as it was expected. Coordinative performance improves with age and is positively influenced by practicing a sports activity. The predisposition to a particular sport with a well-planned training may lead to a motor proficiency comparable to that reached by older athletes and better than same-age athletes. MDPI 2021-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8199911/ /pubmed/34204965 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115998 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Boutios, Stefanos
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The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo
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title_full The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo
title_fullStr The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo
title_short The Impact of Age, Gender and Technical Experience on Three Motor Coordination Skills in Children Practicing Taekwondo
title_sort impact of age, gender and technical experience on three motor coordination skills in children practicing taekwondo
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8199911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204965
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115998
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